around, not 32 of them. Yeah. Russell Wilson used to be one
of those used to be one of those. There's some debate on
whether he's still one of those
but we do know for sure, he's still the Denver Broncos
quarterback. Yes. And now we know for sure who is coach will
be Sean, Payton is back in the NFL,
on the coaching side line, and not in the fox Studio.
The Denver Broncos are sending first and second round picks to
the Saints. So it's the 29th overall because Denver's
It's traded their top top. Pick a way to Seattle.
Yeah. Who gets that one, right?
And Denver gets Sean, Payton. He gets say they get a 2024
third-round pick. Right. So
do you think Sean, Payton can fix whatever's wrong with
the Broncos offense? I think this is like a blessing in disguise,
you know, first of it, the Broncos thing was weird in
general.
I think it was getting to the point where people were going
like, wait, what the hell is going on in Denver? What's
taking so long? This is like, was kind of
Most coveted job out there yet. They can't seem to kind of come
to terms with anybody here, right? You know, whether it's
some rumors of too many cooks in the kitchen during
the interview process, whatever? Right. It was starting I think
through the football world looking like
Denver looks kind of like
dysfunctional right now or what the hell are they doing here,
right?
I do think there was trepidation on the Sean, Payton
hiring because of, yes, the price tag that you're gonna
have to pay him. And then, to the compensation, you just laid
out, right? Nobody just wants to give away a first-round
Pick let alone a second round, pick to.
So that that I think made things tough and he's gonna
make like 20 million. I think. I would think he's gonna be in
that ballpark, right? I think that's about where the top
coaches are now and also with some art has that money? Well,
they definitely have that money. I think that's it's in
there. Your couch cushions but
then like the other thing too is with you know a Sean Payton
you take him, you know, that it's a huge personality, he's
a controlling personality, he's going to be the sergeant
general of the franchise. I don't care who your GMAT GM. Is
he's coming. And he's the
And now, so I'm sure there's who knows what was going on
behind there.
And then here's the other thing that you might have heard me
say this to Floria today. I don't know how much you heard
of us, but, you know,
like there was a talk of D'Amico Ryan yesterday. There
was a late Push by Denver. I don't know where that came
from. I know there's
some people are reporting that I have. No inkling of that
happening at all. Now, what I do know is that Denver was deep
in the conversations with Jim Harbaugh and this weekend,
right? I mean it was Jim was in the mix from how I've been told
by people connected. The situation is all weekend, Jim
was
in Denver, we're going back and forth and he was,
I guess a little on the fence. Either way blah, blah blah.
Finally came no Sunday
and say started to negotiate with Sean Payton
and that's when it happened,
all right? And they got it done.
So my point is one blessing in disguise. They didn't get
Jim Harbaugh. Oh, that was the disguise part of it. Why do you
think they did that? You think that was to leverage Sean? No,
I think they really want them. I think he was their number-one
Target. You think Jim Harbaugh was the number one time?
Definitely.
Yes, 100%. He was their number one target, right? I think he
was the number one target to begin with. They went through
this whole surge that can get anything figured out, they went
back to Jim Harbaugh again, you know, after her boss said, no,
I'm staying at Michigan.
And then, yeah, they were flirting with each other once
again, here. So that went down, it, whatever it fell through,
the deal. Sean Payton's, the guy,
I think that's where I was really saying, it's a blessing
in disguise to me, it's a blessing in disguise. Not to
knock on Jim Harbaugh, which you know, I would like to do.
But when I think Sean Payton's, the right hire for this team
to, I think you got this type of money invested in Russell
Wilson, the assets, you traded away to get Russell Wilson
like,
yeah,
double down, whatever you want to call, spend more money to
make that investment work. It's going to be worth it. Let alone
with the guy who I would go out of the options that are out,
there is the best to do this.
And even out of the options that aren't out there, I'd
still have my go. He might be the To do this, right? I mean,
if we start to go to the coaches that are coaching other
teams right now
and you go, I don't know if anybody's really better than
Sean Payton. The sheriff says situation, you know? So that's
where
I love it. And yeah it's expensive so what
but Sean Payton is a quarterback whisperer
no he took a guy like Drew Brees who again is phenomenal.
But like let's not forget the Chargers were like we don't
want them, he's not good enough for us
and he doesn't throw the ball, outside the numbers and down
the field. Good for Us or we feel like we can win a Super
Bowl champs. Pains like, well, I'll take him. I know what
he'll do. Good.
And I'll look after the whole offense around it,
that's where he's gonna be, brilliant.
You know, let alone.
This is the, the Lost Art of what people don't realize with
great coaches, is their their ability to build confidence
within the team and then within players,
right? That good coaches.
Make their Stars feel like, man. I'm the man. Nothing can
beat me, right? They, that's what they do.
You know? And, and that's where Russell lost that, you know,
whether it's after the injury in Seattle. And then, of
course, this year,
it's like a double whammy.
And I think, Sean Payton can build him back up to,
at least, get them as close as anybody could, to the old
Russell Wilson. We used to say, Sean, Payton is talked about
Russell Wilson since being hired. Nola.com Nola
has this quote says, Russell is a hard worker has
At a high level and won a lot of games in this league. The
pressure is on us to put a good run game together, reduce
the degree of difficulty on his position.
I'm excited about him. So you did a good job and I think you
were ahead of most people out there. Looking at what
Nathaniel hacking, who's getting a lot of heat at
the time. Yeah. And you looked at the tape and you said
Nathaniel Hackett, his offense is getting people open yet. So
Wilson is not threat those open people, right? Do you think
Sean Payton will be able to get that out of Russell Wilson?
Like what will he have to do?
If the guys were open, yeah,
then they were doing their job. How do you get guys more open?
Or I guess just make rust trust that, that that's, that's,
that's what it is. But you said and see this goes back to
again, to the building of the confidence,
you know,
coaches are great salesman
and they're great at, you know, the great coaches as we've
discussed all the time.
Hey, a lot of them. They all got the same plays,
it's still a little intricacies and how you could sell the play
to your team and just a little detail. Of a play
that me can make a big difference, right? I was giving you
like an example, like
play, you know, I'd run in, I was at the Tennessee Titans in
2008, but Terry, Kerry Collins would call this one play. We
call it
30 times of the year and never never opened. Never, never
well, I got man, I'd see other teams hitting this with.
I go to Denver with Josh, McDaniels, the same play, right?
But he's just got a little nuance and
how to look at the play
and then, hey wait. When they could play cover three receiver
I want you to run the route. Just a little like this
and if it's covered to it's the same route but just fronted
a little different against cover two and then all of a sudden
I'm going to holy s***. Brenda Marshall is open every time we
call this f****** but we couldn't hit this play in
Tennessee the year before
now Josh McDaniels
sold us the play, gave us confidence showed us, Brady
running the play, how good he was at it. All that gave
the receivers confidence and if you just do what I say you'll be
Ben and all the sudden it's Unstoppable. And I'm going man,
this place sucks before he put it in, right? I'm gonna spy is
never open. You never I run this plate. 80 times in my life
never
opened. And then now I go to training camp with the Broncos
and Josh McDaniels, oh my gosh,
we're in this place, 30 yards, a clip here, it's
an unbelievable. So that's where Sean Payton's in a come in,
the salesman aspect rebuilding the confidence of Russell Wilson.
He's in the show him clips and
hey look at Drew Drew strong. This play, we got 95 thousand
yards in this. Play, you got a stronger on then Drew you can
throw this in there.
Come on, come on. Big Boy. Look I got tapes of you from from
Seattle, three years ago here, your
same play, it's a you can do this right, he's gonna get him,
he's gonna sell all that. So that's where it's going to get
Russell to buy in.
So it's the salesman
and then you know, again that way that we talk about. So well
to wear like
Sean was playing quarterback, withdrew those all those years,
you know, it was like if
Drew got hit I was like oh man I'm rattled who I'm getting hit
out here today,
right? So he's going to be in the boat in the
fight with them,
that's going to make Russell feel good.
And you know, I think between that selling the the plays and
just rebuilding
Russell's confidence in himself which is a thing to,
I mean I don't care who you are
and now balichek and McDaniels. They had a
make Brady feel good sometimes to sure. I think it's one of
the reasons he was like I've had enough of this place. I'd
like to go somewhere else with a fresh Outlook and
have Bruce Arians and Byron. Leftwich, give me some
filing. Somebody tell me how good I am, right.
Everybody needs that. It's the NFL. I have this conversation
with Jason Garrett, a few weeks ago, confidence is such a big
thing,
you know, and the state of the mind of the football player so
then he can go out and believe he's good and I'm gonna be good
today and and all those positive things
and that's where I think Sean, Payton going to be great. Let
alone, I will be shocked. All Mark my words one more thing.
I will be shocked if their first Marquis move of
the offseason
is not offensive line
because that's the other thing he's going to do. He's going to
go he's going to go look
hey don't just read my paintings. I got to all these big
up here. Don't worry just like Drew had New Orleans,
just listen to what I'm saying. And look downfield don't worry.
We'll protect you so that only another thing. He's going to
take off his his mental framework. Right?
You know. This year that was on his mind to wait. I'm learning
a new playbook. I don't know about these plays, I'm not
sure. You know
and I'm not being protected
and we can't run the ball.
So all of that and Sean's going to come, all that s*** down and
that's where
I will be shocked. If Russell Wilson,
doesn't have a bounce back. Oh,
he looks closer to the old Russell Wilson, so if they do that,
their defense is already
awesome. Exactly.
Got right now. Yeah, on February 1st, right? 2023.
Right. Are the Denver Broncos of After him, I'm gonna
I'll say it. Sure you're already costly. I'm just upset
you a believer in Sean Payton because his, his his coaching
goes beyond the offense, you know,
like a Shanahan or a McDaniel or,
you know, whoever McVeigh,
and they know also because they're so good at offense.
They also know what makes a good defense, right? So, they
always, that's why those guys always have these good
coordinators, right? Because they're like,
I play that guy. He's annoying. I don't, I can't figure out his
rules.
And they do some things to me that always give me problems,
right? So that's the other thing I'd be shocked if they
don't have a top-notch defense in mind in here whether that's
a
Vic fangio. Maybe he'll come back, I don't know
no or EJ ever oh who was there right? But
he's had guys like Dennis Allen, right? And there's past
is Adi coordinator had Greg Williams of for that who's
a very good creative defense of mine. So I'd be shocked if he
doesn't bring that. And Sean always brings a toughness and
a physicality to his team
for a guy that throws for 5,000 yards. A lot his teams were
always physical and
yeah, I would be,
they will be in the playoff conversation next year. All
right. Maybe I don't want to say playoffs, what? Playoff
conversation? Oh well, I'm backing off. I'm totally back.
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